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Weekend Open Comments

I happened across a website with a little something for everyone:

For Squawk:  Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America

For SuperDave, just a reminder as you put together those awesome meals:  Eating People is Wrong.  Bambi is okay. There’s also a book on eating gifted kids.  I’m telling you right now, just keep any type of kids off of the menu, okay?  Well, maybe baby goats are okay…

For me: Outwitting Squirrels 101.  I have given up growing squash not just because those squash vine borers almost drove me to a nervous breakdown, but also because Fatso Squirrel was helping himself to my produce before it was ripe enough to pick.  Dang Fatso.

Here’s one for Texpat:  Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification.  It just wouldn’t do for him to confuse a feral western North America shopping cart with one of his less exotic local shopping carts running loose.

And in memory of Hammie, there’s even a Florida Man coloring book.

For those of us who’ve been through knee surgery:  This Knee Recovery Coloring Book

I sense a few prank gifts in this selection.

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120 responses to “Weekend Open Comments”

  1. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Hey, Dr Phil ! At least Governor Abbott bussed this guy to New York.

    Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday arrested a Peruvian gang leader who is wanted in his home country for nearly two dozen murders.

    Gianfranco Torres-Navarro, a 38-year-old Peruvian national who entered the United States unlawfully earlier this year, was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday in Endicott, New York, the agency confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The notorious gang leader has since been transported to the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility in Batavia, New York.

    and,

    Torres-Navarro was arrested by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials after illegally entering the U.S. near Roma, Texas, on May 16, according to ICE. CBP issued him a notice to appear for immigration proceedings, allowing him to enter the interior of the U.S.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    HA! That’s pretty Good. Scrolling through yesterday’s stuff I have once again missed a whole lot but I’ll try to check out some of it. I have a lot of catching up to do and it is HOT here.
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This is what happens when you put ketchup on a hot dog in Chicago. 😀

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    7:19 AM Graveyard Dead my work is done here. 😉

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ll never buy a Ford product again, certainly not any late model vehicles. You are naive if you believe this won’t be abused.

    Ford Motor Co. has filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a system that would effectively convert modern police vehicles into mobile surveillance platforms designed to autonomously track and tattle on speeders. However, the tech doesn’t look as though it would have to be limited to the vehicles driven by law enforcement.

    As described in the patent application, which looks to have been snagged first by Motor Authority, the system utilizes on-board sensing equipment (e.g. radar and exterior cameras) to identify other vehicles that have exceeded a set speed-limit threshold.

    This is something patrol officers already do with radar and laser systems. However, Ford’s patent looks to automate the process somewhat. All vehicles surrounding the cruiser are examined and any caught speeding will have an image snapped of the vehicle for use as evidence. From there, it’s up to the officer to pull the vehicle over or have the department mail out tickets (should local laws allow for that).

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Here are 20 Big Lies Kamala Harris has told from The Federalist.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Best news this morning…

    As president, Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate agreement, while the US under Joe Biden rejoined it. Trump has promised to expand oil and gas production, and his campaign has said he will again withdraw the US from the Paris accord if he wins a second term.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Front cover of today’s New York Post. Apparently, Kamala isn’t happy about it.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      I clicked on the link, saw the cover, and am wondering ‘what is racist about it’? I can’t see any reference to race whatsoever.

  9. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “This action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort,” the congressman said.

    LINK: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/16/rep-higgins-butler-swat-operator-shot-thomas-matthew-crooks-from-the-ground-before-secret-service-delivered-fatal-shot/

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Deliberate spoilation of evidence is evidence of guilt and a cover-up. The top 5 layers (at least) of the FBI need to be fired (from a cannon into the Atlantic Ocean) and investigated as conspirators to assassinate Trump.

  10. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Awwww that is so sweet finding me that book. Thank you.

  11. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I need help bad. My lovely wife and I were having a disagreement on something. Out of the blue she said I was right. Ummmmmmm
    NOW WHAT DO I DO?!?!??

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Praise her for her intelligence and now go do something stupid so she can holler at you for that.

    2. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      You must record such occurrences in your book of Red Letter Dates.
      Even though the book has only one page.

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Sage wall in Montana. Very interesting geological or man made feature.

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The Zionists killed Kenny!

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    My 9:18

    Notice how the congressman says he thinks the FIB is “allegedly in proper possession” of the spent rounds and shooter’s rifle?

  15. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    The Kamel is crying racism over the NY Post cover because she knows she’s a communist and the truth hurts.

    shel’l cry racism anytime she’s criticized and the communist media will abide.

  16. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Super Dave almost got robbed….. and I mean almost.

  17. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Big mess in CA.

  18. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Hezbollah releases video of secret MISSILE tunnel.

  19. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    There’s no Ireland now either.

    pat Buchanan called it 20 years ago.
    Death of the West.

    and I add by suicide because western leaders are mostly comprised of psychos and the insane.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Let’s move the Indiana Bell building without interrupting business as usual. I’d bet it cannot be done today.

    https://youtu.be/DGegneT9KfQ

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      This was back when America did things nobody else thought possible. Today, every institution in the West is incompetent, lacks confidence, vision, ethics and skills.

  21. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    if you read the article in my 11:59am post repeat to yourself that the replacement theory is just another conspiracy theory because cnn says so.

    the 2020 election was the most secure in our history cnn also stated.
    trump colluded with Russia. Repeated for 4 years by cnn.

    the wooden dummy is as sharp as a tack and is the best he’s ever been said cnn and mr potato head, the sushi shark sipper and his pet mako mika. Repeated for 4 years.

  22. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Ok hosers.
    I’m out.
    enjoy your naps and malt-o-meal when you awake.

    I think the jersey boss man needs to start paying me double time for my weekend work.

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally finished my beads & prayers, and am perusing the posts.

    I always wanted to go to Ireland, but now I don’t know if I ever want to visit Europe. My priest wants to lead a group to the Holy Lands next year, and I may go on that trip. But the rest of Europe is falling to 3rd world thugs. I know there are parts of Paris and London which are no-go zones for even the cops.

    If I went to Europe, I’d love to see the smaller towns. I’ve never had a desire to see or stay in the big cities, domestic or foreign. I went to Rome with Lovely Daughter years ago, which was nice, but I think that might be it.

    Now that thugs are being moved into the smaller towns, even those may be dangerous to visit.

  24. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Today’s CoffeeAndCovid roundup:

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Saturday! Your weekend edition roundup includes: Kamala delivers stinking pile of economic garbage and gets battered by corporate media; Dems prepare for their big post-nominating selection convention and observers wonder what could happen; record 2024 solar activity tests journalist’s vocabulary skills; secret Ukrainian peace deal plunges into icy Russian river after Zelensky’s looney invasion; the British face jail time for inconvenient comments, and I offer some suggestions for protesting without protesting.

  25. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, the Cackler’s economic plan seems to be getting panned by everyone except the politically blind.

    Plot twist! The honeymoon is over. Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Editorial Board ran its official op-ed about Vice President ‘Plan B’ and her new economic proposal, and it was a stinker:

    That was fast! The scathing op-ed was prompted by VP Cackle’s economic plan, if you can call it that, which she ‘unveiled’ yesterday by triumphantly plopping it onto the podium where it immediately sank like a lead super-yacht overfilled with migrants.

    The gist of Kamala’s “plan” included:

    (1) free money to ‘first-time’ home buyers, which will inflate the costs of homes,

    (2) price controls on groceries to stop grocery-store ‘price gouging,’ which will cause shortages, and

    (3) increased taxes on ‘corporations’ to pay for it all, which since corporations do not actually pay taxes but only collect taxes from consumers, means higher prices for everything.

    It was a dumb plan, even for Kamala, which is saying something.

    Yep, yep, annnnnnnnddd……. yep. The WaPo even compared her plan to Nixon’s price controls efforts. That *has* to be a death knell for any Dem, to be compared to the hated Nixon. WaPo called her speech “a disappointment”. The Times wasn’t any more kind.

    Is the honeymoon over already?

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Given the WaPo’s rather dark coverage of the Cackler’s economic “plan,” that makes the consideration of a possible failure of the Cackler to survive the upcoming convention more likely:

    It is possible that, at the Convention, the DNC could convene an emergency meeting to consider a new candidate, asking delegates to re-vote. They could even select a new candidate if they somehow disqualified Kamala.

    That would be wild and unprecedented, but Democrats are already paddling around in a wild and unprecedented lake.

    Watching the media carefully may give us the heads up on the possibility.

    I’m not just tossing out pure speculation. There were a few dark hints in other stories of tentative trouble, Kamala clouds gathering on the horizon.

    Either way, after the convention their choice will be made. Whether it’s made by the delegates or TPTB. After that, then the campaign can settle into final battle mode formation.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Mr. C. goes over the latest scaremongering efforts – sun flares, doomseday viruses, et al, – then cruises through the Ukrainian self-demolition of a possible peace plan just as winter is rearing its cold, ugly head.

    Lastly, there’s the story of a 61 year old man sentenced to jail for yelling “Who the f*** is Allah?”. It seems that freedom of speech doesn’t exist in England, unless you are, of course, a follower of the pedophile prophet.

    Mr. C. has some suggestions for the folks across the pond:

    Along with many other British, David was upset about illegal immigrants being housed for free —well, at taxpayer expense— in swanky London hotels. It was a good thing David meekly apologized to the court for losing his temper, or else they might have thrown him off a roof for insulting the prophet.

    Conservatives in Britain need to get smarter. Protests won’t work. Memes will get them arrested. So they need to learn how to protest without protesting, to politely sandbag their government while coloring inside the new lines. They could, for example, submit every single form the government offers, in triplicate. They could apply for every available benefit. They could automatically appeal every traffic ticket, jaywalking fine, or minor BBC rate increase.

    Jam it up.

    They could pay their fines and taxes in person, in pennies, or pence, or farthings, or whatever coins the British still use. But be smart about it. First, try politely paying with a hundred dollar (pound) bill. When the bureaucrat says sorry, lads, they can’t make change, only then regretfully pull out the sack of coins.

    If they won’t take cash, respectfully ask for the manager, and waste an hour of their time.

    Brits, culturally skilled at passive-aggressive courtesies, could scrupulously follow every minor regulation, safety rule, and trivial mandate in ways that disrupt smooth government operation. They could use the many snitch hotlines to mass-report government accounts and public officials’ posts for spreading hate or disinformation. They could file millions of small claims cases for any minor (but non-frivolous!) transgression.

    They need to learn to wield the rules against the rule-makers. For instance, disabled conservatives could haltingly cross busy London intersections by degrees, stopping a few times to rest, fouling traffic. It wouldn’t take much planning to create total gridlock.

    They could organize “buy nothing” days that briefly shut down the economy. They could organize mass opt-out campaigns and boycott government-friendly corporations. They could relentlessly phone their ministers and local agencies with stupid, time-consuming requests. Sorry, I forgot what you told me last time, be a good bloke and tell me again.

    They could visit their local zoning offices in person, and when it’s their turn, they could hog the window, feigning confusion and asking dozens of exhausting questions until the bureaucrat goes insane and orders them out. Then the next citizen in line could step up and repeat the same laborious inquiry. They could all come back the next day and start over.

    The ideas are potentially limitless. The idea is legal protests. Protesting without protesting. Quiet riots.

    To help our beleaguered British cousins, add your own creative suggestions in the comments.

    Shut. It. Down. This strategy exploits the great weakness still available to citizens suffering in allegedly open societies. Politely and compliantly use the government against itself. Force the government to go Full Orwell. But for Heaven’s sake, stop actual protesting. Don’t become a target. Mindless protesting only works for leftists. We are much smarter than they are. Hit them where it hurts. Nicely. Legally.

    Every government, even authoritarian governments, operates solely with the consent of the citizens it governs. Just stop consenting. I hope this helps. Get the word out.

    Interesting tactics, maybe we should try some of them.

  28. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    The propaganda is thick with the kamel ads on YouTube.
    first up was a kamel/Putz ad where they were looking all nice and sweet asking for just 5 dollar donations from the serfs.

    2nd up was a guy claiming to be a combat vet and Trump supporter.

    he is dressed in full combat camouflage and war paint. He’s in the woods with what looked like a bow and arrow. He’s claiming his videos are being taken down as he espouses the issues at hand.

    to me it’s quite obvious the add is designed to hurt Trump, not help.

    after all, everyone knows that all trump supporters are Deliverance type hillbillies painted and dressed in full camouflage with war paint on their faces and hanging out or living in the woods.

    imo it’s another a deep state production using a fed posing as a Trump supporter.

    until proven wrong, I’m sticking with that theory.

    they’re going to go full and deep psyop until Nov 4 using all the media sources they can exploit in order to give the communist Kenyan, via his newly reinvented wooden dummyette, another 4 years.

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    From the comments:

    Every “quiet protest” technique Jeff recommends for England ALSO CAN WORK IN THE USA. Especially those involving paying with cash instead of credit, and snarling traffic in major urban areas … what fun Americans could have snarling traffic around Chicago’s United Center and McCormack Place next week!

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Perusing the comments at the C&C, someone noted that the panty brigade (avoiding using the name a—f-a because I don’t want out post flagged) is already arriving in large numbers to protest in Chicago. To which was this response:

    I smell a false flag operation coming. If there are that many Antifa thugs in Chicago, then many of them probably have maga hats, Trump shirts, etc.

    I agree. How many of them will be employees of certain alphabet agencies?

    Then this:

    They are already claiming that on X, that it’s MAGA people who are going to be violent. But actually we will all be up north at a Trump rally.

    So some folks are already planting the seeds of anti-maga.

  31. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I have this urge to clean my car. Here’s hoping it doesn’t fall apart when I remove the dirt that I think is holding it together…

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Had one of those rare evenings singing at church when all five of us were dead on the mark (which includes the bass player and the piano guy).
    It’s pretty special when it all gels.
    All for the glory of God.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      love
      that

  33. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Indeed, Chicago ought to be quite the good place for the Dems’ get-together. Democrats who have run the city and much of the state for several generations have wrecked it. Little wonder that lots of folks from there are leaving the state for southern conservative states.

    I had kinfolk who lived in a suburb of Chicago in the late 1930s through the1980s or so when the serious criminals lived in the posh city areas where most of the illegal stuff was going on.

    My two cousins grew up there and moved away when companies sent them elsewhere in the late 1970s & early1980s. The Chicago area is huge or was when I had kinfolk living there. I have no desire to see that city again.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ve been very busy doing non-internet stuff.

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      It looks like we all have. And that is good. There is life outside the internet, but it’s good that we all get back together on a regular and frequent basis.

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, I got everything on the car done except the inside of the windows. I thought I was going to have to stop before I was finished, but there was thunder and dark clouds getting ever closer, so I started bringing stuff in, but then it went east of us, so I had to make a DIY replacement for Armor All and clean the hard surfaces. It called for essential oils, and I chose lemongrass, hopefully as a deterrent to mosquitoes wandering into my car.

    So far, it’s still standing and hasn’t fallen apart. But now I have a headache from being out in the heat this afternoon.

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Fortunately, O’Hare International Airport is not in Chicago. When it was first built, my aunt and cousin took me to dine at the airport restaurant. That was one of The Places to dine in the Chicago area for many years. It is still a great place to dine if you have time between planes at O’Hare.

  37. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Elvis Week has wrapped up in Memphis so my Sweetie will be returning home in the morning. Candlelight was couple days ago. Earlier this week she was walking on the sidewalks in the pool area behind the hotel and just as she was stepping onto the grass a sprinkler head popped up causing her to trip and fall. Racked her ribs pretty good so she has been suffering. Though she took her own car to the airport, the way construction is at the terminal it is quite a walk to the shuttles to the car lots and she just can’t lug her two suitcases (heavy) that far. She can get assistance inside the terminal but you are pretty much on your own outside. So, I’m going to pick her up at 8:00AM at baggage claim and take her to her car. What a husband.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey Miss BSue
    How bout them Astros?

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I know right? Four games up, from where they were?? I’m loving it cause I know how much they are hated lol. Good thing it’s a weak division though, a wild card spot would be tough.

    2. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      It was a heart-warming game with the rookie and his parents… I hope they keep him – seemed to be good luck LOL

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    GJT

    I don’t get to hear or watch many Astro games but I just happened to do so this evening after church.
    Biggio was a guest on the radio broadcast because Ken Caminiti was inducted into the Astros Hall of Fame last nite.
    Pretty interesting to hear that he and Camie came up thru the organization and made The Show within a year of each other…two kids joining a team with a buncha 35 year-old veterans.
    Bidge was of course catching at that time…said he had the best seat in the house watching Camie play 3rd.
    Pretty special stories to share.

    As everyone knows, Camie had an addiction problem. But everyone who ever played with him loved him.
    Died at the age of 41…speedball overdose.

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      I couldn’t tell you the date – but can tell you exactly where we were when we heard – crossing from Texas into Arkansas, on our way to Missouri… when “they” broke in on talk radio to share the news…

      1. Shannon Avatar
        Shannon
  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’m quite envious of those of you who get to watch the Astros on television.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      I don’t get the channel the Astros play on either, I just follow their goings on.

      I was at the game Ken Caminiti debuted in. Something like a homer, double, extraordinary plays at third.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, they DO understand what a wall does, after all.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Trump recruits Tulsi for debate prep.

    Insert Smiley Face here.

  43. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We have given up driving ourselves to Houston Intergalactic
    Airport and find that a limo ride going there and coming home is far better than having our car sit in a garage or worse in an open lot for however many days we’re gone. It is well worth the expense.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      The cost of long-term parking here makes it more economical to take a limo ride to and from the Newark Airport. It costs me $90 each way plus tip, but it’s still cheaper and easier than having to walk through an unsafe, dark parking lot in Newark, New Jersey.

    2. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      If y’all ever need to fly out of Hobby, let me know and you can park your car at my house. I’ll even taxi you the last half mile to and fro.

      1. Adee Avatar
        Adee

        Thank you for the kind offer to park our car at your home.

        I don’t think we will be flying anywhere from Hobby these days. Our traveling for several days is mostly down to driving to Fredericksburg and flying to Wisconsin to see the kinfolk once or maybe twice a year depending on what’s going on up there. They are more tempted to come visit here in late fall or spring.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    i stopped to watch the QVC channel for the first time in…..forever.

    They are selling a really cheesey Dyson vacuum cleaner for $600.

    SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.

    SIX HUNDRED FRIKKIN DOLLARS.

    i have only one question….

    Besides Doctor phil and Squawk, who here owns a $600 vacuum cleaner?

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I mean, I know that Squawk has a $600 vacuum cleaner.

    But who else?

  46. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We were young and dumb and fell for a Rainbow vacuum cleaner. I don’t remember the cost but it was up there, it was a good one, would do just about anything it paint your toenails but that water tank had to be emptied or else. Got left stored full of water one too many times and it locked up from the corrosion.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here’s hoping that my 37 year-old Oreck XL keeps on keeping on.

  48. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From the Crossword; Fake Ally, answer;

    Frenemy /frĕn′ə-mē/
    noun

    1. A person who is ostensibly friendly or collegial with someone but who is actually antagonistic or competitive.
    2. Someone who pretends to be your friend, but is really your enemy.
    3. A fair-weather friend who is also a rival.

    I don’t think I’ve heard of that one before. The other F words were, Frescos, Fretsome, Freckle, Freight and Freshmen.

    Mornin’ Gang

    1. Tedtam Avatar
      Tedtam

      I’ve known about frenemy for a long time. I’m actually related to a few.

  49. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Our downstairs floors are concrete with a rolled pattern. It wasn’t until we moved in that I realized the “seams” between the “stones” was too deep for our vacuum to clean easily. They don’t look that deep, except to our vacuum cleaner. Using the broom was the only way to clean that dirt, and sweeping is hard on my back (especially this floor).

    I began my search for another vacuum cleaner, and found a Kenmore at a garage sale for $15. It was a canister, which I wanted, so I figgered all I’d lose was $15 if it didn’t work. I brought it home.

    It. Was. Amazing. Sucked the dirt out of those cracks on the first pass. When I began shopping for replacement bags, I discovered that it was really a Panasonic brand, and I realized what I had….

    Back in my youth ministry days, we had a craft night for little kids, which resulted in glitter all up and down the carpeted hallway. I thought I was going to be there all night trying to get that glitter out. Nope, they had a little Panasonic vacuum cleaner that sucked that stuff right up.

    For as well as those machines work, I can’t believe they don’t have more name recognition in the market place.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      My mother had a Kenmore canister vacuum I believe she bought the year I was born in 1952. That thing sucked like a 5hp Shop-Vac. It had one those fabric covered hoses and attachments. I carried that thing to a repairman in Houston, but the last time they told me parts were no longer available. This was about 1988 or ’89 so the vacuum lasted almost 40 years. My mother cried when I told her.

  50. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Going carnivore has gotten my blood sugar under control. I cheated with a handful of raspberries (which were on sale) the other day, and it showed up in the numbers.

    Fortunately, there are lots of recipes that will allow me to stick to the diet. I don’t feel deprived, though I do wander down memory lane to my Daddy’s lasagna….but if I get off my butt I can replicate it properly and only wander with one foot off the carnivore path….

  51. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I saw an ad yesterday for a farm that touted selling a quarter cow for about $4.99/lb. Their cattle are grass fed but grain finished, still better than grain fed. I don’t have room for that much meat, but as I eat down my freezer, it’s something to consider. I thought carnivore would be expensive, but actually, it’s not. I don’t eat that much at one sitting, for starters.

    I still have to make veggies ‘n stuff for Hubby, but if all I buy is meat and animal products, I’m not buying all the other stuff. Shopping would be a lot faster. I already primarily shop the perimeter of the store, but even that would be reduced to just the cold stuff with brief forays into the chip aisle for pork rinds. And coffee and tea.

    That alone would make Hubby happy, getting in and out of the store fast.

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I’m fixin’ sausage, eggs, grits N biscuits for breakfast this morning. Oh and for my 5 AM coffee I had Beach Blast Coconut Rum Cream left over from the beach trip. Just a shot for flavor so the alcohol content was negligible. 😉

  53. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon mentioned that goofy TV show, Northern Exposure a while back so we’ve been watching it from the beginning and I noticed the “N” number (N8326A) on Maggie’s old Cessna 170 so I looked it up. It is of course still flying and is now owned by Raccoon Aviation out of San Antonio. It even has the original paint scheme on it. When the show was filmed it was owned by a guy in Portland Oregon. BTW; the Cessna 170B was manufactured in 1952 and they first came out in 1948. Also if I remember right the show was filmed in a small town in Oregon.

  54. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    And yes, Shannon Janine Turner is HOT! 😀

  55. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon
    I would never be caught with such a cheap vacuum cleaner. You obviously do not know who you are dealing with.

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a shocking report on how utterly corrupt our Department of Justice has become under Holder and Garland. The subornation of perjury is a felony with fines and imprisonment of five years in US federal courts. It also comes with disbarment for attorneys.

    The audio file is a recording of a June 6 telephonic interview that Jessica did with Nick Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. Tartaglione was recounting some of his conversations with Epstein.

    As Tartaglione tells it, Epstein returned to their shared cell after a meeting with the federal prosecutors. He told his cellmate that the prosecutors were fishing for a plea deal with him if he would provide damaging information about Trump that would support his impeachment. It didn’t matter whether it was true or not.

     

    Tartaglione asked whether Epstein knew Trump. Epstein acknowledged that although he did know Trump, they didn’t like each other. When Tartaglione asked why, Epstein described how Trump had kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago because he, Epstein, was there with an under-aged girl. Here is Tartaglione’s description of the conversation…

  57. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat
    The login problem is on your end. I see where you logged successfully in 18 times in a row. So I have to ask, what gave you changed on your end? Did you turn off some setting, add some anti-virus program, anti-adware program? Are you holding your tongue just right while rubbing your stomach and patting your head?

    I want you to clear your history cache then——
    Clearing your system cache:
    Here’s how to access the system cache files on Mac:

    1. Open Finder, click Go menu, and select Go to Folder.
    2. Type ~/Library/Caches/ in the window and click Go.
    3. Your system, or library, caches will appear. … 
    4. You can open each folder and delete unneeded cache files by dragging them to the Trash and emptying it.

    If these steps do not work. LMK and we will do a system repair.

    You may want to try a different browser. I have tried my hardest to replicate your problem and I can’t. That tells me the problem is on your end.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I have only had to log-in once a day, I think, the last few days and refreshing the page did work as you said. I haven’t changed anything, added/deleted/downloaded, on the Mac. I’ll clear the system cache. Thanks.

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The American Council of Trustees and Alumni sponsored this survey of 3,000 students across the country.

    “If the people no longer care to understand their government, if they are ignorant of its history and its institutions, a government like ours cannot long stand, according to America’s Founders and later heroes like Lincoln,” Jackson told The Fix.

    Additionally, 37 percent of the students correctly identified the current chief justice of the Supreme Court, but 32 percent responded they were “not sure.” Less than one-third (31 percent) were able to identify James Madison as the Father of the Constitution, with almost half (44 percent) incorrectly responding with Thomas Jefferson.

    Historian and Hillsdale College Professor Wilfred McClay told The Fix in a recent email he was both “appalled and saddened” by another finding from the survey that found 57 percent of students would flee the country rather than stay and fight in the case of an invasion.

    60% of male students said they would stay and fight, but only 34% of girls said they would fight. The encouraging thing was 31% of non-binary students said would fight.

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Epstein’s cellmate at my 9:35 AM link:

    He [Epstein] said, ‘I don’t know anything. . . . But the government told me I don’t have to prove what I say about Trump as long as Trump’s people can’t disprove it.’ I [Tartaglione] said ‘Yes, he’s the President of the United States. His people are the FBI.’ He [Epstein] said, ‘That’s what I said, and they said, no, the FBI’s our people, not his people.’

  60. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Unfortunately, this is published at National Review so it won’t get near the exposure it once would have before they ruined the site. However, it is worth the read. Walz is worse than anybody thinks.

    Top Ten Reason Tim Walz Stinks

    Governor Tim Walz — along with the progressive faction he represents in Minnesota politics — is quite directly the reason my family moved out of the state. (They now happily reside in the free land of Florida.) 

     

    Upon Walz’s nomination to VP candidate, I knew I would have some stories to share. Beyond his obscene financial mismanagement — which our economic guru Dominic Pino has summarized nicely — there are too many scandals from his governorship to count. As gathered from Minnesotan friends and family, here are the top ten reasons Tim Walz stinks…

    Here is the spending disaster of Tim Walz.

  61. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I remember being angry about the hack book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, in the 1990s. The author had every right to criticize the popular, but often mediocre history books used in junior high and high schools in America. However, being an old Leftist he couldn’t resist turning it into an indoctrination project instead of a more informative and fair assessment of history.

    Wilfred Reilly, Kentucky State history prof has decided to remedy the situation and save the Truth. Give all the high school and college students you know a copy. In fact, many Americans could use one.

    Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

    In 1995, James W. Loewen penned the classic work of criticism Lies My Teacher Told Me, a left-leaning corrective that addressed much of what was sanitized and omitted from American history books.

    But in the decades that followed, false leftist narratives—as wrong as those they supplanted—have come to dominate American academia and education. Now, in the same spirit but updated for 2024, Wilfred Reilly demolishes the scholastic myths propagated by the left, uncovers fresh angles on “established” events, and turns what we think we know about history upside down. Among the popular lies he debunks:

    “The ‘Red Scare’ was a moral panic that caught no commies”

    “Native Americans were peaceful people who spent all day dancing”

    “European colonialism was—empirically—a no-good, terrible, very bad thing”

    “The racist ‘Southern Strategy’ turned the South Republican”

    “The Vietnam War was unpopular and pointless”

    Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me sets the record straight on many of these myths, explaining that there actually were communists in Hollywood; that many Native American tribes were cannibals, owned slaves and made them march the Trail of Tears with them; and that history, while almost always bad for Black Americans, was much worse for all of us than we tend to think it was.

    Smart, irreverent, and deeply researched, Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me will revolutionize your understanding of history and reveal a new and refreshing way to teach and think about the past.

  62. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A friend called and their water heater just cratered. They called four plumbers and the going rate for a 50 gallon gas water heater in this area is now $4,000. When I came here the top rate $1,400 from the gas company. If I were in better shape physically, I would go do the tank for them.

    PSE&G, the local gas utility is now charging $4,200 so all the private plumbing cos. are charging $3,900 to $4,000.

    New Jersey now requires a water pressure regulator and an automatic flood prevention water shutoff since virtually every unit in NJ is in a basement. Fine, but these only cost about $300 and an A.O. Smith gas heater runs $700. Add 15% for delivery of material and you’re at $1,150.
    These plumbers are charging $2,850 for labor.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      These plumbers are charging $2,850 for labor.

      HOw much of that is protection money going to Bent nose Vinnie?

    2. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      Last time my water heater went out (about 10 years ago), I bought a Rinnai tankless, gas powered, water heater and I could’nt be happier about it. Buying the heater forced me to also do a whole house water softener and I added an RO system at the kitchen sink. Everything works better now and I never run out of hot water.

  63. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    1) Yo uncklo Hoover.
    i have a $300 vacuum cleaner. I’m not quite hoi polloi enough yet to own a Dyson. I need to buy more Geritol stock.;)

    2) next time I log in I’m going to try rubbing my head and stomach in opposite directions and at the same time to see if it helps.

    yo squawka Bruddah
    best David Lee Roth quote.

    “The reason the critics all like Elvis Costello better than me is because they all look like Elvis Costello.”

    runner up
    “Sam (Sammy Hagar) throws a party. I am the party”

  64. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well mama is back home and in bed nursing her rib age from a fall. She is happy, I am happy and the dog is really happy things are back to normal.

    Oh, and, only five trips around the IAH terminals before showed up outside baggage claim. I think that is a record. I think IAH is terminally under construction, they just can’t quit.

  65. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Picking my wife up at the airport went much smoother than I expected, all the construction going on things are chaos. She told me should was landing at terminal B. Every flight tracker out there said the flight was landing at E, baggage claim C. So which would it be, terminal B, E or C? I chose to listen to the flight status page. Oh and at terminal C baggage claim level there are two sides of the building you can pick up and you are not allowed to go slowly looking for your pickup much less stop and you have to go all around the terminals to drive along the other side of the building.. Fortunately I chose the correct side of the building. I hate flying and airports.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      It didn’t use to be this way. Once I walked into Hobby Airport to catch a Southwest flight to somewhere to do an auction. It was the middle of the afternoon and I found a parking space close to the front door. I walked in and bought a ticket with no reservation and then remembered I had a .45 automatic in my briefcase and had to run back to the truck to get rid of it. I still had time to walk slowly to the bar and have a drink before my flight.

      1. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        Ah yes, the days before terrorist grandmas and strip searching.

        Yeah the good old days of Hobby, I lived and worked near there and though I flew quite regularly, rarely did Southwest not go where I needed to go.

  66. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Who we need as governor.

    who we have as governor.

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      https://youtu.be/CYIKw91sAWE

  67. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Guy directly across from me chooses to mow his yard up and down rather than around, which is fine but his lines are slightly slanted, not square to the house with a bit of a curve right in the center, each lane identical. Hurts my OCD bad. They are renters and I should be happy he keeps it mowed which he does. On a little less than an acre lot he nursed an old rider mower that something broke on it just about every time he cut it. If he couldn’t get it going he drug out the old push mower. Gotta give him that. He’s got a new rider now and he spit shines it after each use. Other than all that, I don’t pay much attention to their goings on. :P:

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      What drives me crazy is when folks out here in the country blow the grass clippings out onto the road. All you have to do is make sure you have the chute facing inward when you go alongsudie the road. It might take a few extra passes but dang!

      1. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        Exactly!

  68. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From the Jessica Reed Kraus Substack piece on Epstein’s cellmate. I figured the Feds would disappear this guy. I’m surprised they haven’t already. From my 9:35 AM link.

    Update: Nick was abruptly moved in the middle of the night without warning just one day after I posted his audio here. He was taken from MDC, where he’d been held for 8 years since his arrest, and relocated to an unknown site. As of now, no one has heard from him yet.

  69. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I am reposting this because it is so good in case anyone may have missed it.

    Devouring Democracy: The Left Embodies the Archetype of Female Predation

    The archetype of female predation is the devouring mother. Rather than providing nurture and care to her children, this mother weaponizes her children’s dependent status, using it as a mechanism to increase her power. Those under the care of the devouring mother are perpetual infants, never moving out of a state of dependence on their caregiver who shields the child from external threats while perpetrating unspeakable harm within the “safe space” of the mother/child relationship.

    The feminist nature of culture’s understanding of narratives of power and predation is critical to the left’s overall moral and rhetorical framework because it was from this foundation that intersectionality emerged. This feminist sociological theory created the now well-known victimhood hierarchy by analyzing pain and marginalization through an exploration of intersecting identities such as gender, race, and class.

    The left has spent decades building on this foundation, successfully bullying their opposition into framing social issues using a feminist lens that makes no room for genuine criticism of power perpetrated by groups perceived as marginalized. Instead, our culture’s language of pain, oppression, and marginalization was created by academic disciplines dominated by left-wing ideologies.

  70. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This has been my wine of choice for the last year or so. I pay $13.99 for a single bottle at the Maywood Market or $14.99 at the liquor store. It is the best Malbec I have found for $15 or less. I’ve had much more expensive wines that were a real disappointment and left me feeling ripped off.

    Piatelli Malbec & Tannat

    This Malbec is also very good at $14.99.

    Agua de Piedras from Mendoza Argentina.

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Mendoza produces some of the finest wines anywhere. It is also a spectacularly beautiful place. I never made it there when I was in Argentina, but the men told me besides great wines, the most beautiful women in South America come from Mendoza. My friend in Buenos Aires warned me if I went there I would never leave.

    Take a look at the amazing Piatelli Winery here in the foothills of the Andes.

    A photo of the Agua de Piedras vineyard

  72. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m not a wine drinker but I suddenly have an urge for a bottle glass or two. Oh wait, never mind I have a few silver cans still in the fridge.

  73. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Decided to take the day off and take in the NASCAR race in Michigan but they are in rain delay – second one now. I did double check and I do not have the Astro channel so back to crime stories guess.

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      GJT, it’s all good…Stros won 😉

  74. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    How not to kill an overheated patient. Is this standard practice in Texas ? It should be because over 9,000 high school athletes in the US are treated for overheating every year.

    But what Giordano didn’t know is that when a patient is overheated, the national recommendation is not to load the patient and rush them to the hospital. It’s a technique called “Cool First, Transport Second.” In that process, a patient’s body temperature is brought back down before they are transported to the hospital. It can be lifesaving. However, just 11 states require ambulance services to follow that protocol.

    and,

    Matt Willens is a paramedic who practices “Cool First, Transport Second” when treating a patient who is experiencing extreme heat illness.

    The process starts with ice. Then, the patient is loaded into a bag. Ice and water are poured in, and the bag is zipped, with one arm hanging out so Willens can monitor the patient’s blood pressure. This impromptu ice bath allows the patient to cool down rapidly, reducing the impacts of heat illness.

    “Now we’re treating them in the field and making that difference and that could save their life,” Willens explained. “That is going to save their life.”

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      I do not know what changes have happened since my retirement (there are typically changes at least once yearly to Heart Association guidelines) but… there are no ice machines in ambulances… Thinking back on what we would’ve done before I retired, I am thinking we’d have activated all the chemical cold packs we had on board (typically about 4) and placed them in areas with large circulatory volume (groins and armpits), and done our best to get the patient to definitive care and access to massive cooling as quickly as possible… but maybe they really do bag the patient and pour in lots of ice and water these days…

  75. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Test

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Pop

  76. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    I’m not a wine drinker but I suddenly have an urge for a bottle glass or two

    Come on in.
    Richard Petty says the wine is fine.

  77. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    hey

  78. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Yowel gawwwn?

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Ever since Her Highness saw that Relief Factor commercial on TV in which the guy from Houston says, “No, honey you don’t understand it’s gone”, she’s been walking around the house practicing – “It’s gawwoonah”. I am having to give her some Texas dialect lessons though.

  79. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Oar whut?

  80. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I was being blocked from making comments. Let’s see if this works now.

  81. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Whatever was causing the “Comments closed!” message is gone now, I guess.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Like the man said: Refresh the page. I did and it worked. I’m just embarassed it never occurred to me to do something so simple.

  82. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I had a long talk with NASA Sis this afternoon. She’d been texting the family about her flare with her autoimmune disease after her appendectomy. We discussed the health benefits of fasting and of the keto diet, especially carnivore. Doing any of those things will help bring down the inflammation in her body. I advised her to consult with her doctor, since she’s on meds ‘n stuff.

    She mentioned that she’s heard from other folks with autoimmune diseases how keto/carnivore have helped them. She said my phone call may be the sign she needed to start looking into it. I sent her some links to get her started investigating her options.

  83. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is for bsue54.

    I found this video out of Fort Worth on the Cool First, Transport Later method for first responders.

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      Thanx – interesting…

  84. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I am deleting tons of pictures from the old Hambone site. They were not attached to any post so out they go. That may be what caused the “shut down”.

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      You have to save all the photos of Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro.

      1. squawkbox Avatar
        squawkbox

        MY EYES THEY BURN MAKE IT STOP

  85. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More aliens landing on Texas beaches:

    Bristle worms – really bad juju

    Bearded fireworms have been found crawling around the Gulf Coast, and accidentally touching one can cause pain for hours and leave your skin sensitive for weeks.

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Holy crap those look nasty

  86. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Watch the video of this unborn baby smiling at his father’s voice and tell me that abortion isn’t evil. I dare ya’.

    That special place in Hell is getting bigger by the day.

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